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The Final Transition Conference Science, Death and Consciousness

People die every day. The longer we live, the more likely we are to experience the dying and death of someone close to us.

Discussions about death are no longer off limits. It’s in the news, on TV, in popular literature and part of our lives. It’s okay to be curious. It’s okay now to want to know about dying and even what comes after.

At the Final Transition Conference you can be part of a dogma-free discussion about death and all of its challenges and mysteries. Whether you are a healthcare professional, in a complementary health profession, a caregiver or just an individual who wants to ask questions, The Final Transition Conference is something for you to consider.

Here is a story that should teach us a lot about our culture. Isn’t it interesting to see how people both inside and outside of Gravity Payments reacted to the founder’s decision to raise salaries to a minimum of $70,000. Would you have predicted this? Notice the invocation of Communism and Socialism when a high paid executive cuts his own salary to raise those of his employees.

Dan Price, Gravity Payment Founder

There are times when Dan Price feels as if he stumbled into the middle of the street with a flag and found himself at the head of a parade.

Three months ago, Mr. Price, 31, announced he was setting a new minimum salary of $70,000 at his Seattle credit card processing firm, Gravity Payments, and slashing his own million-dollar pay package to do it. He wasn’t thinking about the current political clamor over low wages or the growing gap between rich and poor, he said. He was just thinking of the 120 people who worked for him and, let’s be honest, a bit of free publicity. The idea struck him when a friend shared her worries about paying both her rent and student loans on a $40,000 salary. He realized a lot of his own employees earned that or less.

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Want a sense of what climate change is going to bring to parts of the world? Try this on. Ronlyn tells me there are things she makes that are baked at 165°F. In the Libyan desert I have been in temperatures as high as 122°F. My Bedouin workers laid down their tools at 114°F and retreated to their tents, telling me it was not safe for humans to work at temperatures above that. And I certainly had not reason to doubt that. At 122°F I discovered the best your car air conditioning can do is tepid.

A graphic showing temperatures on ThursdayCredit: The Telegraph

‘That was one of the most incredible temperature observations I have ever seen and it is one of the most extreme readings ever in the world,’ said AccuWeather meteorologist Anthony Saglia.

In neigbouring countries such as Iraq the government has urged residents to drink plenty of water and stay out of the sun amid fears they could be struck down by what experts refer to as a “heat dome” rampaging across the Middle East.

The dome – a type of high pressure ridge that is passing over the region – has exacerbated electricity and water supply issues and makes the scorching heat even more unbearable.

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Here’s another little shocker on the weather produced by climate change.

“Columbia River Gorge at Sunset”Credit: Chip Phillips

Freakishly hot, dry weather in the Pacific Northwest is killing millions of fish in the overheated waters of the region’s rivers and streams.

“We’ve lost about 1.5 million juvenile fish this year due to drought conditions at our hatcheries,” Ron Warren of Washington State’s Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a statement. “This is unlike anything we’ve seen for some time.”

Sockeye salmon losses in the Columbia River due to the heat are in the hundreds of thousands, said Jeff Fryer, senior fishery scientist with the river’s Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. The fish were returning from the ocean to spawn when the “unprecedented” warm water killed them, he said.

Water temperatures in the Columbia River — part of which runs along the border of Oregon and Washington — reached the low 70s shortly after July 4, something that doesn’t usually happen until …

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Senator Bernie Sanders tells the truth about the new international plutocracy. Few in mainstream media even notice. There is a kind of blackout on his candidacy or, when he covered, he is treated as an aberrant sideshow. Only you can make the political establishment take him seriously. There is no reason he cannot and should not win.

The extremely rich have “psychiatric issues” and it affects day-to-day Americans, populist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said recently. Research shows that he’s on to something.

he extremely rich have “psychiatric issues” and it affects day-to-day Americans, populist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said recently. Research shows that he’s on to something.

“We all know people who are addicted to alcohol or drugs. These people are addicted to money,” Sanders said earlier this year, according to MSNBC. The result? A “philosophical war being waged against the middle-class and working families.”

Sanders wants to revive a time in American history where “one person could work 40 hours a week and make enough to take care for the entire family.”

That will take a political revolution, he said, and again he could be right.

People who regularly read my byline will recall that back in April I wrote about poor Scott Walker making a huge gaffe just as it seemed like the Koch brothers, his presumed benefactors, were ready to go all-in on his campaign. This resulted in a postponement of any endorsement in the GOP primary in favor of an “audition” among other candidates later in the summer.

Well, the big day is upon us. Politico reported this week that a handful of candidates have made the final cut and have been invited to make one last tryout for the starring role in the Kochs’ big 2015 Summer Super-Pageant:

Four leading GOP presidential candidates – Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker – are traveling to a Southern California luxury hotel in coming days to make their cases directly …

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Jimmy Carter, in his ninth decade has the courage to tell the truth. Consider his words in light of the previous article about the Koch brothers and their ilk.

Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.” Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said, “look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves.” (emphasis added)

Carter was responding to a question from Hartmann about recent Supreme Court decisions on campaign financing like Citizens United.

Transcript:

HARTMANN: Our Supreme Court has now said, “unlimited money in politics.” It seems like a violation of principles of democracy. … Your thoughts on that?

CARTER: It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it’s just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the

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